Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-31
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The SsJa CT FIHe Stock In Nor;h Texas
This Year Greater Shsn
Ever Before
The Advantages of North Texas SIS a Cen
ter Of the 5tockfss ding Industry
OF tho Country.

Mr.. P r. Clark, well known stock
man of Comar che county, Vas in the city
yesterday. He purchased 8 couple OF
thoroughbred Hereford bulls from Mr..
Powell's herd and will probably get some
more before leaving The city. Fort
Worth is certainly the mart to which
comes everyone in search OF fine stock
these dsYs.
T. n. Samson, a saUckmsn OF Bowie
county, was in the city lasti evening,
looking fer hne stock. This gentle
man has bought several head OF
breeding stock every season foI
three CT four years and is going in this
year heavier than ever. de says that is
the case with ell stockmen he
knows, and that there have been
larger numbers Of foe stock
sold in North Texas already this winter
than be has known in any one year before
since he has been IN the stock business N
Texas, { matter CT some nine years.
a reporter has for several days teen
collecting opinions, statements and ideas
regarding cattle feeding as regards lis
adaptabj!ity to Texas, particularly North
Texas, and hGs approached diffeTen.
stockmen Snd farmers upon the subject.
There is but one opinion in the matter
and different arguments are used to
bolster it. North Texas is favored be-
Yond any other portion Of the United
States in this respect. The climate msy
be ssid TO be first in Importance. There
is no period Of the year when cattle can
not be allowed to graz9 without fear of
their suffering from cold or wet and with
perfect confidence in their obtaining
forage Of G. nutricious description, thus
affording great economy in feed. Then
the country supplies everything needful
in the way of feed. Corn is grown in
such abundance as equals the best corn
growing sections; and that cheaper. and
bY some considered better article of feed,
cotton seed, is abundant and can be had
cheap ard st the very feeding stables.
The country IS intersected by different
lines Of railway, sffordiDg direct and
competitive routes to tie markets for the
stock after they sre finished fer slaugh-
te-. The western portions CT the state is
one large breeding ground, where sup
plies o. stock Of good quality can be pro-
duced ct snort distance from the feeding
place. With such conditions, every one
c Dcurs in the opinion that North
Texas can and should furnish the
fed stock of the country. Nor is it
an industry in which men may not profit
ably put their money and labor. In those
northern states where corn and grain
grow most sbundantly the farmers can
find no better means Of disposiIg Of their
products than feeding them to csttle. It
is ~ Industry tried by farmers all through
the northern states and they have found
that corn made into meat pays better than
sold direct on the markets.
The stockmen Of these parts, too, are
getting prepared for q change in this di-
recti0n il their business. They recog-
lize the fact that the demand for beef Is
charging, and they are fixing to- produce
q Class Of catte tnat 8 little money can
be probably expended upon IN feed, IS
witness the urusual numbers of grade end
thoroughbred breeding cattle being
DoUgnJ il Fort Worth this winter, some
thing unprecedented il the history Of the
business; and from all over Texas come
statements Of movements being made to
breed up stock.